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title: "Infrastructure Summary"
description: "This report helps you track configuration and resource usage across monitored VMware infrastructure. Native tools that are a part of the VMware vSphere virtualization platform do not provide complete infrastructure visibility."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/mp/reports/infrastructure_summary_vmware.html"
breadcrumb: "Veeam MP Report Knowledge > Veeam VMware Analysis Reports > Infrastructure Summary"
dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# Infrastructure Summary

This report helps you track configuration and resource usage across monitored VMware infrastructure.

## Description

Native tools that are a part of the VMware vSphere virtualization platform do not provide complete infrastructure visibility. The **Infrastructure Summary** report reveals the necessary VMware inventory configuration specifics and allows you to evaluate current resource utilization in your VMware infrastructure.

## Parameters

Date/time Selection: defines a time period to analyze in the report.

Show details: defines whether the report should display results in the collapsed or expanded view.

Data Aggregation: defines whether the data in the report will be aggregated to *Hourly* or *Daily* values.

Unhealthy States: defines what states you consider unhealthy: *Critical*, *Warning*, *Unmonitored*, *Monitor disabled*, *Monitoring unavailable*, *Unplanned maintenance* or *Planned maintenance* (by default, only *Critical* and *Unmonitored* states are selected). Applies only to the drill-down [Veeam State Summary Report](veeam_state_summary_report.md).

Scope: defines a list of Groups or Objects that will be analyzed in the report (by default, the **VMware Datastores** and **VMware Clusters** groups are selected).

SLO (%): defines a service level objective. The SLO sets a time period (in percent against the reporting period) when selected infrastructure objects must be in a healthy state (that is, in the state that is not marked as unhealthy). Applies only to the drill-down [Veeam State Summary Report](veeam_state_summary_report.md).

## Sample Usage

Collect data on resource usage and configuration of your virtual environment for the previous week.

### Instructions

1. Open the Infrastructure Summary report.
2. From the **From** list, select *Previous week > Sunday*. From the **To** list, select *Previous week > Saturday*.
3. From the **Show details** list, select *Yes (expanded)*.
4. From the **Unhealthy States** list, select *Critical*, *Warning* and *Unmonitored*.
5. Leave the **Scope** section without changes.
6. In the **SLO (%)** field, enter *85*.
7. Click **Run** to view the report.

### Report Output

The report will provide summary information on the selected infrastructure scope: the total number of vCenter Servers, datacenters, clusters, hosts, VMs and datastores, as well as total CPU, memory and disk resources.

The **Virtual Infrastructure Density** table will show the following consolidation ratios:

- *Host : Cluster ratio* — the average number of hosts in a cluster;
- *VM : Host ratio* — the average number of VMs running on a host;
- *vCPU : CPU ratio* — the average number of vCPUs configured for a single physical processor;
- *VM : Datastore ratio* — the average number of VMs on a datastore.

The **Top 10 Guest Operating Systems** table will show a list of guest operating systems installed on VMs in your environment.

Details tables will display configuration properties of vCenter Servers, datastores, clusters and host systems. For each datastore, the report will also provide information on its capacity and the amount of provisioned, used and free space.

You can click the **State History** link in a details table to drill down to the [Veeam State Summary Report](veeam_state_summary_report.md) and review uptime and downtime statistics for the infrastructure object.

You can click a number in the **CPU Usage %**, **Memory Pressure %**, **Memory Usage %**, **Pressure** or **VMs** column of a details table to drill down to performance details for the infrastructure object.